The 15 Coolest Female Firsts in History

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First female Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee

By the end of the 1960s, Aretha Franklin had come to be known as “The Queen of Soul.” In 1987, she became the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. That’s a lot of R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

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  1. Sarah Fullerton says

    Loved all of these facts about women! Some news that our younger generation probably doesn’t know!

  2. TPS says

    What’s with all this female stuff? I thought we were supposed to be doing gender natural according to nancy and the dems?

  3. Jeanetta B Pyle says

    Please add her name to your famous women,

    GERALDINE MOCK
    A National Aeronautic Association press release, dated April 18, 1964, announced that Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock had just become the first woman to fly solo around the world. Previous attempts by women, including the ill-fated 1937 flight of Amelia Earhart, were unsuccessful. When success did come, it was 27 years later by a woman from Columbus, Ohio, flying a 1953 Cessna 180 single-engine monoplane, the Spirit of Columbus. Mock wrote about her solo world flight in Three Eight Charlie (republished in 2013).

  4. Andy Douglas says

    Madam Curie most notable.

  5. tracy L jones says

    what about Kamala Harris? first female vice president?